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Extending Rokuhan Z-Scale Shorties

Rokuhan makes a selection of Z-Scale "Shorties" which you can motorise and run on Z-Scale layouts. They're all 3-car sets and this proves a problem when you want to run a longer consist.

With the shinkansen specifically, the 3-car consists are extremely short and not very prototypical. Purchasing extra packs to extend a consist would result in a collection of cab cars which can't be used. You could modify a pilot on a cab car to allow coupling, but there's another option.

Let's chop two cab cars in half and make a extra internmediate passenger car. This is mildly scariligious, but ... meh.

I whipped out a set of tools and got to work.

The final result really wasn't too bad!

I wonder if I can get the same results for Dr Yellow and Hello Kitty?

The bows might be a little more obvious.